Flickering Treasures

Flickering Treasures

Date

Jul 12 2015
, 1PM- 3PM

 

Sunday, July 12th at 1:00 p.m.

Speaker Amy Davis

Included with Museum Admission

 

Forest 11/6/11 - 10-10:30 am  f/11

 

Celebrate the golden age of movie-going with Baltimore photographer and author Amy Davis as she presents photographs from her upcoming book, “Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters.” The integral role of Jews in Baltimore cinema, as theater owners, operators and moviegoers will be explored. The collection of vintage and new photographs in Flickering Treasures tells a fresh story of Baltimore through the cultural prism of film exhibition. Share your reminiscences after traveling in time back to your favorite movie houses.

 

Photojournalist Amy Davis has garnered many national awards since joining the staff of The Baltimore Sun in 1987. Her fine art training from The Cooper Union informs her documentary approach. Her photographic work has been exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum, and is in the collection of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York.

 

Creative Alliance, a lively non-profit arts organization based in the Patterson Theatre in Highlandtown, is the fiscal sponsor for Flickering Treasures.

 

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